I purchased my first Nikon camera in 1971 and have been a serious photographer ever since. I moved to the Bay Area month after college graduation in 1972 and got a job doing portraiture and weddings in SF.  after a few weddings I decided that I was a nature photographer not a portrait guy.  then I moved to Santa Rosa in 1973 and took a job as a darkroom assistant for. a portrait photographer there. But at $2.50/hour with a college degree, I decided to move away from professional photography to earn enough money, so that eventually I could go back to full time photography, which I did in 2001.  Knowing that a change was coming I started producing the Marin Visions calendar in 1996, which I still produce to this day. In 2001 I started doing art festivals all over the Bay Area up until the 2008 recession that cut into print  sales by 75% and made art festivals not viable for me. then in 2013, after 3 years at Aurora studios in San Rafael, I moved into ArtWorks Downtown in San Rafael where I kept my studio until the pandemic hit in 2020 and i decided to close it.  Recently I came out with the Marin Visions book, a high quality coffee table book with over 200 pages of Marin images from my calendar.  I still sell Limited Edition framed prints and Note cards through my website – http://www.aspimages.com